{"id":82617,"date":"2019-02-04T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=82617"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:20:45","slug":"fireside-chat-february-4-2019-admissions-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/02\/fireside-chat-february-4-2019-admissions-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; February 4, 2019 &#8211; Admissions Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Rebekah Arant, a Delta State admissions recruiter, to discuss the upcoming admissions event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5kov2tuMDtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At Delta State, we take great pride in academic excellence, which is at the core of Statesmen Scholarship Day and Spring Preview Day \u2014 two events that are part of Go Green Weekend. Here are some numbers from the Office of Admission\u2019s two biggest spring events.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High school students with a 26 ACT score or higher and a 3.5 GPA or higher were invited to this year\u2019s Statesman Scholarship Day.<\/li>\n<li>Invited students come from 10 states, including Michigan, Maine, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Alabama.<\/li>\n<li>213 people attended last year\u2019s Spring Preview Day, including 110 parents and 103 prospective students.<\/li>\n<li>The winners will receive full-ride scholarships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news on campus, the musical \u201cKinky Boots\u201d hits the BPAC stage tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. On Wednesday, February 6 at 6 p.m., Julian Rankin, author of \u201cCatfish Dream: Ed Scott\u2019s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta,\u201d and Willena Scott-White, daughter of Ed Scott, will share his story. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>In athletics news, men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball will host Christian Brothers University and Auburn University-Montgomery this week. The doubleheaders are set for tip off at 5:30 on Thursday and 2 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Rebekah Arant, a Delta State admissions recruiter, to discuss the upcoming admissions event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82672,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82617\/revisions\/82672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}